Category: Painting
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Stained Glass Style Resist Art with Tape
Let’s create a fun stained glass style resist art using watercolor and tape! This art project will be one the whole family can do together! With technology taking over our time it is nice to take a time out and simplify with a relaxing and simple watercolor resist art such as this! We love the…
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DIY Marbled Cards
Marbling paper is one of those crafts that is so hard to stop. Every piece comes out different, and the technique is sort of magical. There are different inks and dyes you can use for marbling paper, but I stuck with using this paper marbling kit for my first try. It worked really well and…
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Salt Painting Fireworks
Have you tried salt painting? It’s a great way to experiment with watercolor paints and so much fun for kids. Just watching the watercolor travel down the salt is pretty magical, but then you also get a piece of artwork to hang up, or you can make your salt paintings into cards! Salt painting takes…
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4th of July Star Tape Resist Art
We love using tape to make easy art projects around here. Tape gives you the cleanest lines, and makes DIY projects like this 4th of July star art so quick and mistake-free. You can use this star painting to decorate your home inside for the fourth of July, or seal it with Mod Podge to…
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Yummy DIY Fruit Slice Watercolor Cards
Maybe it’s a little early for Summer crafts, but I couldn’t wait to make these mouthwatering fruit slice watercolor cards! They’re super easy to make, but you have to have a little patience to let the masking fluid dry, and then let the watercolor dry. This will be difficult, because pullet that masking fluid up…
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Acrylic Paint Transfer is The Coolest
Okay, ya. I’m a bit obsessed with image transfers lately, and I wanted to revisit this acrylic paint transfer technique I tried 6 years ago, which incidentally is 42 dog years and about 80 in internet years. With this technique, we are transferring straight up paint over onto a piece of paper using gel medium.…
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Redo of Acrylic Painting Techniques
When it comes to acrylic painting techniques, versatility is the word. These awesome paints can do just about anything you want a paint to do, from being their own beautiful selves to mimicking watercolors and oils, and even inching into sculpture territory. You’ll see acrylic paint used in everything from the cutie-cutest craft project to…
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Grab Some Flowers and Pound Them to Make Art
I’ve done this a few times over the years, with varying degrees of success based on the flowers and paper and objet de pounding. I think people call it flower pounding, which makes me laugh so hard. It’s basically a type of mono-printmaking using flowers and, well, pounding the hell out of them until their…
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Acrylic Painting Surfaces: What to Use?
I’d like to lead a big raucous cheer right now for acrylic paint, which is not only my favorite art supply, but can also be used on veritably any surface you can think up. Barring a load of grease or major flaky chips, you can prime any surface that acrylics won’t stick to on their…
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Salt and Glue Painting is Fun!
Maybe you’ve heard of Jean from The Artful Parent? Hmmm? Yes? I hope so, because she has been blogging for 10 years on her kid’s art blog, and she has been a major inspiration for every one who has anything to do with blogging about art for kids. In fact, her first book, The Artful…
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12 Self Care Ideas For Artists
Artists need self care just like everyone else, but we need a slightly different approach to some of the facets of caring for ourselves. As lovely and relaxing as a pedicure might be, we need more- something to pique our creative brains and soothe our sensitive souls. Oh, and sometimes we need a kick in…
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Stripey Insect Collage Art Project
Aren’t insects adorable? No? Okay, maybe not. But we can make them adorable through the magic of art. Plus, you don’t need to add in all the extra little weird fuzziness that make them slightly creepy when you create your own. They’re pretty fascinating little creatures, and they are fantastically symmetrical, making them the perfect…